James Nolan Author, Translator & Editor

James Nolan, New Orleans, Louisiana, a fifth-generation native, is a widely published fiction writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Recent books include You Don’t Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction) and the novel Higher Ground (awarded a William Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal in the Novel). He has taught at universities in San Francisco, Florida, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing, as well as in New Orleans.